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Debra Jordan-Kauble was the central figure in Budd Hopkins' international bestseller, "Intruders, the Incredible Visitations at Copley Woods." In 1992 Hopkins' book was made into a CBS mini-series of the same name.  In 1994 she co-author, with her sister Kathy Mitchell, “Abducted, The Story of the Intruders Continues". In August 2021 Debra's 2nd book,  “Extraordinary Contact: Life Beyond Intruders” was published and is available at most online book sellers including Amazon.  She is a former Indiana MUFON investigator, co-founded her own paranormal group, Paranormal Underground and along with co-founder Greg Cable, co-hosts the Midwest Paratalk Radio which livestreams on YouTube every Thursday night at 9 PM EST. She is also a co-host, along with Mary Bassett and Deb and Arjay DeRousse, of Voices of Contact heard every Friday at 8 PM EST on Facebook.   She co-admins with Beverly Moore, the CERO MIDWEST EXPERIENCER FB page. Over the last 30 years she has appeared on many TV and radio programs and was a cast member of the documentary The Observers which is available on Amazon Prime.  She has traveled around the country speaking about her experiences at various conferences.  She is a retired auto industry worker, cosmetologist, Red Cross volunteer, member of MENSA, wife, mother, grandmother and new GREAT-grandmother. She lives in the Midwest with her husband of 30 yrs and her two Yorkies.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/night-dreams-talk-radio--2788432/support.

Date: 4/9/24Name of podcast: Dr. PatientEpisode title and number: 14 Slavery and Modern HealthcareEpisode summary: Many of the health inequities that we see in healthcare today stem from beliefs held in the time of slavery that have led to "myths" about black bodies and black health. Compounded by historical policy making related to socioeconomics, red lining, civil rights and more, people of color in the US are still facing inequity in healthcare today, from access to treatment to outcomes. Linda Villarosa is  an author on race and health in America, professor and journalist in residence at The City College of New York, contributing writer to the NY Times and a contributor to the 1619 project.Guest(s): Linda VillarosaKey Terms:11:12 – Drapetomania11:32 – Spirometer23:04 – Momnibus billReferences: 03:29 – Black women in the US have a higher death rate in pregnancy than white women with the same socioeconomic status03:39 – Big review article showing how black patients receive pain meds less often 03:45 – Study from University of Virginia 2016 medical students beliefs about black body myths04:04 – Race correction on PFTs (pulmonary function tests)05:51 – A black woman with a PhD is more likely to die in childbirth than a white woman with a high school degree07:51 – The history of Dr. J Marion Sims09:23 – Statue of Dr. J Marion Sims  taken down in NYC09:39 – Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey (The Mothers of Gynecology) art installation in Montgomery, AL09:47 – Say Anarcha book10:20 – Dr. Cartwright12:32 – (Lack of) science behind the spirometer race correction15:07 – Weathering book21:23 – CA maternal death rates23:41 – Dr. Mary Bassett, NY Health Commissioner, requires anti-bias training26:03 – “Lightly Black and Green” movement at HBCUs

Please hit subscribe/ Follow and leave a positive revue. Click here to go to Mary's page Click here to go to our website. Click here to save on clothing in Jens online clothing store. Become a Patreon of the show here. Email Mary at mamamaryregressions@hotmail.com Mary Bassett aka Mama Mary is a professional channeler and psychic medium. She is also a professional hypnosis regressionist that works with e.t. experiences as well MUFON through hypnosis regression therapy. She has been reading professionally for over 10 years and travels all over for psychic fairs, special paracon events, speaking events and home parties doing gallery readings, speaking and giving channeled psychic readings. She has a direct connect with spiritual energies, entities, loved ones and interdimensional beings within the spiritual realms. She connects through channeling and automatic writing. She's been doing regression work for over a year now and has done close to 100 regressions. She has studied the Quantum Healing method of regression as well as has studied with the infamous Regressionist Yvonne Smith. She dedicates her time in assisting others on their path of self-discovery, their path of healing and their spiritual journey through channeled mediumship readings, energy work and hypnosis regressions. She dedicates her time in guiding others into a deeper understanding and knowledge of their spiritual journey and purpose

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REV. MICHAEL CARTER, MARY BASSETT and  DEB and ARJAY DeROUSSE from the "Voices of Contact Podcast" join us to discuss UFOs in Michigan.  All will also be appearing at the Michigan UFO Conference.  We will delve into Mary's work with regression.  How does it work, and what is it revealing about her clients' experiences?  How has this procedure changed since the Hills' case?  With the close proximity to Ontario, we'll get some international UFO news and a recap of the congressional hearings.  We will work in patterns from Michael's captivating recent publication "Initiation."   https://www.miufocon.com

REV. MICHAEL CARTER, MARY BASSETT and  DEB and ARJAY DeROUSSE from the "Voices of Contact Podcast" join us to discuss UFOs in Michigan.  All will also be appearing at the Michigan UFO Conference.  We will delve into Mary's work with regression.  How does it work, and what is it revealing about her clients' experiences?  How has this procedure changed since the Hills' case?  With the close proximity to Ontario, we'll get some international UFO news and a recap of the congressional hearings.  We will work in patterns from Michael's captivating recent publication "Initiation."   https://www.miufocon.com

REV. MICHAEL CARTER, MARY BASSETT and  DEB and ARJAY DeROUSSE from the "Voices of Contact Podcast" join us to discuss UFOs in Michigan.  All will also be appearing at the Michigan UFO Conference.  We will delve into Mary's work with regression.  How does it work, and what is it revealing about her clients' experiences?  How has this procedure changed since the Hills' case?  With the close proximity to Ontario, we'll get some international UFO news and a recap of the congressional hearings.  We will work in patterns from Michael's captivating recent publication "Initiation."  https://www.miufocon.com

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Tonight on We Are Paradox Media's "Late Night in the Rockies" Weekend Host TessaTNT is joined by Mama Mary Bassett.This evening we will be discussing the paranormal, hauntings, the state of the world today, hypnosis, psychic gifts as well as Free Psychic Readings! For your Free Psychic Reading please go to streamyard.com/e8xi7vkzbk

Conversations on Health Care is proud to have again served as a platform for trusted, informed experts during the third year of the pandemic. This episode looks back on some of the most insightful comments from doctors and scientists who are on the frontlines of fighting COVID. In addition to NIH's Dr. Anthony Fauci we had as our guests Dr. Peter Hotez from Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Zeke Emanuel at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Michael Osterholm from the University of Minnesota, Dr. Mary Bassett with the New York City Health Department and others. Listen in as hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter capture their insights about these extraordinary medical challenges. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

We're proud to have again served as a platform for trusted, informed experts during the third year of the pandemic. This week “Conversations on Health Care” looks back on some of the most insightful comments from doctors and scientists who are on the frontlines of fighting COVID. In addition to NIH's Dr. Anthony Fauci we had as our guests Dr. Peter Hotez from Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Zeke Emanuel at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Michael Osterholm from the University of Minnesota, Dr. Mary Bassett with the New York City Health Department and others. Listen in as hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter capture their insights about these extraordinary medical challenges.

Polio has been detected in New York wastewater following the case of a man infected and paralyzed by the virus in July. How much is the virus circulating and what does that mean for you and young children at greatest risk? Andy speaks with New York State Health Commissioner Dr. Mary T. Bassett and Stanford Professor of Pediatrics Dr. Yvonne “Bonnie” Maldonado about how a disease eliminated from the Western Hemisphere in 1994 returned and what we must do now. Keep up with Andy on Twitter @ASlavitt. Follow Dr. Mary Bassett on Twitter @DrMaryTBassett. Joining Lemonada Premium is a great way to support our show and get bonus content. Subscribe today at bit.ly/lemonadapremium.    Support the show by checking out our sponsors! Click this link for a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this show and all Lemonada shows: https://lemonadamedia.com/sponsors/    Check out these resources from today's episode:  Read Mary's piece about why even a single case of polio is a threat: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/opinion/even-a-single-case-of-polio-is-a-threat.html Read Bonnie's piece explaining how global health failures that spread COVID and monkeypox also brought polio back: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-08-22/polio-vaccines-united-states-global-health Find vaccines, masks, testing, treatments, and other resources in your community: https://www.covid.gov/ Order Andy's book, “Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response”: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250770165  Stay up to date with us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia.  For additional resources, information, and a transcript of the episode, visit lemonadamedia.com/show/inthebubble.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Todd DeVoe: if you have been paying attention to the news, you know that the polio virus has been found in the New York City sewage samples, according to city and state health departments.They felt that this was something they were going to find because some virus cases have popped up north of New York City in Rockland and Orange counties. The detection of poliovirus in the wastewater samples in New York city's alarming but not surprising. According to Mary Bassett and the state health department working with local and federal partners responding urgently to continuing and being aggressive in investigating this polio spread.When I was a kid, we all had shots. I always thought polio was a thing that was in the past. And like everything old comes back around again, this is something we're gonna have to consider. I sat down with Kelly McKinney, and we had a discussion about a whole bunch of different things, but also about the polio virus.Because he's now working in the healthcare system, we put our predictive hats on our Nostradamus hats, if you will. And we were looking to see what is coming potentially in the future. If you guys know Kelly McKinney, you know he's a character with some interesting takes on things.And for sure, we had this great conversation, a very smart and thoughtful way of looking at what could be happening in the near future when it comes to American politics and the impacts on emergency management. And even the metaverse, this is not a typical episode that you would hear on the emergency management network, but I thought it'd be great to share, and I hope you enjoy it too.Kelly, What scares you more, Monkeypox or polio in the sewer systems? I mean that that's a pretty scary thing. Kelly McKinney: yeah, that's a good question. That's a good question. I'll tell you about Bill Gates. Was there somebody who was interviewing Bill Gates, and he said, this polio thing is super scary. Like he was adamant about a big problem. This polio thing was. I figured he knows more than I do. So now I'm a little scared of the polio thing. And we're living with Monkeypox. I was just telling you that, just today, we started to see those curves come down the daily op; the daily case numbers just now beginning to come down a little bit.So we may maybe knock wood. We may be over the hump in New York with Monkeypox, but we're sure not over the hump with polio. Polio is now. We're just seeing the leading edge of that. I don't know what. I don't even know what to think about polio. I don't know when it or if it's spreading, I don't know what that epi curve could look like because we were talking about that.There are lots of folks that have been that have had a polio vaccine; you and I have had one. Are we still, are we, do we have immunity to polio? I hope Todd DeVoe: so. I hope so too, but that's the question. How long does it last? I, we never talked about boosters or anything for that. We could get a titer test and see how we're doing on it. And, and then we had the younger kids. I don't think my kids aren't polio vaccinated. I think they stopped giving it out in the eighties?Kelly McKinney: I don't know. I don't know. I remember a couple of things when I was in like second grade, and they hit me with a gun that, that's vaccine gun. Remember that? And it left. I was like, wow, I don't know what that, I think that was smallpox or something. And that's a monkeypox vaccine. So I don't know, they shot us up with a lot of stuff, Todd, and I think that explains a lot of why we're such a war.Yeah. No, it's like, why are we weird? Like, why are we? I think it had to do with those vaccines back in the. It couldn't be anything else. It couldn't be all that bad TV we watched. I'll tell you something I'm worried about. I saw this thing the other day, and they were talking about the metaverse.They did this research survey on teenagers and their social media use. And TikTok now has exploded. It's only been around, I dunno a couple years, and now everybody's on TikTok. If you're 12 to 19, like you're on [00:04:00] TikTok, 15% of 12 to 19-year-olds are on TikTok continuously from the time they wake up until they go to sleep. They're on TikTok continuously 15%, dude, that, this thing's gonna suck all the kids in it.Kelly McKinney: They're all gonna be in the metaverse. Okay. So here's a question for you, right? What if we have a disaster in the metaverse? What do we do then? Do we need crisis management in the metaverse? Do we have to go in there and do the kinds of things in the metaverse we're doing over here?Cause what if there's a disaster inside the metaverse like, do we gotta go in there and do, and Todd DeVoe: funny is. Brian. And I was back, like in 2009, we were goofing around with this thing called second life. Which is basically the metaverse, he created a skydiving school, and you could buy parachutes and all sorts of weird stuff inside the metaverse side of the second life.But we created emergency operations. The school that I was at for training. And you can go into the EOC, and you can go sit at the desk, you can do full activation, and there's PDFs, all sorts of stuff inside there. So I could see how the metaverse type thing could play out like that in, in essence, at least at a minimum, as a training ground for disaster response.But that's something that we can. That's a whole nother story. What are the things you think we should be forecasting and looking at as emergency managers, specifically emergency management in healthcare? Kelly McKinney: Healthcare is, I think, in decent shape, and I don't wanna speak for my colleagues in healthcare, but there's nothing that gets you more resilient than going through a major disaster.So you've got a lot of people. And that's not to say people aren't tired, and that's not to say that we're not beaten down, but we, healthcare, have come through this firestorm. And so, I don't worry about healthcare as much as I do everyone else.And I'm very concerned about the political environment. I'm very concerned. In the midterms, I'm really concerned about the 2024 presidential elections. What that looks like that to me is the worst-case scenario there is terrible. And I don't think, I think we need to put ourselves into 2024, the post-2024 environments.And what does that look like? When that election doesn't get certified, we go into a constitutional crisis, and we don't have everybody agreeing on who the president of the United States is. What does that look like? The other thing that worries me is in China, Taiwan.If you listen to President Xi Jinping, he is clear. He's saying things that are very similar to what President Putin was saying before he went into Ukraine. And he's saying, he's saying, he's saying Taiwan is part of China. And we cannot push the reunification, the liberation of Taiwan to the next generation.It has to be, has to by us. And so it's a matter of time. There are a lot of things that argue for now because of the posture of American forces there and because of where he is in his political lifespan. And where the Chinese people are. There's a lot of popular sentiment, especially among young people.To be belligerent in terms of Taiwan. So what does a war with China look like? From an emergency management perspective, war is the mother of all crises. And so, what does war look like? What does war look like?What is an internal Constitutional crisis? Look like these are things that emergency managers need to be thinking about. They're not thinking about them now; nobody's talking about what is the emergency management implication of a war with China. What is the emergency management implication of not having a president in the white house? So we need to be table topping this stuff pretty significantly. And not just us, but, on the federal level, the states need to be doing that. That's, the state is the primary unit of government, and the states need to be those state emergency management agencies thinking ahead. And I think they're still a little trapped at the moment. y. Todd DeVoe: Absolutely. This question has me spinning right now. I think for a little while will be okay without a functioning Federal government. The states will be okay for a bit...as long as the states have their act together. That's why we have Federalism, right? That's why that's the whole purpose of Federalism, but in the long term, we'll be vulnerable to outside attack because they'll see it as a weakness. Somebody like China, for instance, would take that time to do what they wanna do in other parts of the world. And it's gonna be... it would be a scary time. Kelly McKinney: Do you remember 2000?Todd DeVoe: Yeah.Kelly McKinney Remember, do you remember when, when they put the decision into the Supreme court, Todd DeVoe: that was Gore v. Bush.[00:08:56] Kelly McKinney: Yeah. And that the nation was paralyzed until that was certified. I think the country will just come to a screeching halt; the markets are going to go crazy. But it's all about uncertainty because it will freak people out. The other thing is that people don't appreciate this, but the amount of money that comes down to the states from the federal government is just. Todd DeVoe: staggering.Kelly McKinney: Staggering. Yeah. And so if that stops if all of a sudden, the checks. You know that, and that's where you start from a state emergency management perspective. You say, okay, what if all of the federal money stopped today? What does that look like in the state of Ohio? What does that look like?Kelly McKinney: And you could start with that. You can work that, that, that aspect of it for a long time. Todd DeVoe: See, and that's what I'm saying, Kelly, like on a, on this conversation, New York, California, Washington state, Ohio, Florida, Texas. I think they're gonna be okay, with, for a little bit if the money stops flowing from the federal government. States like Mississippi rely upon the federal government to pay for everything. This is odd, politically speaking, but anyway, it's beside the point it's. They're states like that..., Kelly McKinney: that's it, Todd! They And I talk about it a lot. Governors, talk about it. There's a certain kind of the governor negotiations about if they, they know what the amount of money coming outta their state in federal taxes is and what they get back from the feds.Every governor knows that number. Okay. Is it positive or negative in this case of Mississippi? Like you said, That's a hugely positive number. The Mississippi gets a lot better in terms of the money its citizens send to the federal government versus what the federal government sends back to the state. They're a net positive. New York is a net negative. Other states are net negative. So then you start to think if you have the Greg Abbots and the DeSantis of the world, and they start to think, okay, let me... If I'm, if that's a negative flow for me, What exactly is the benefit of being part of this union? And you go, so go back to the founding fathers, and they asked, Benjamin Franklin, what did you do? Do you mean you made a Republic? He said we made a Republic. If you can, keep it. I don't know if we can keep it. I don't know that it'll keep because of that cost benefit. You're looking in now. All these people are saying, okay, the FBI went into Mar Lago. These federal agents had no business being there. And so you have this whole Federalism. The states are in opposition to the feds. And, I think the ties that bind us could be much weaker than people think. And so you could see, I could see this fracturing that could happen very quickly, right? And if you put yourself in a tabletop exercise, the states might even prepare for that. They might even put their legislatures and say, Hey, put the laws into place, and we'll just cut. Cut. Ties. We'll go. We'll go off on our own. Todd DeVoe: Did you see Missouri's letter to the ATF?Kelly McKinney: That's that kind of what that's what made me think about it, Todd, is that very letter that, what was that? The attorney general or something? Yeah, fascinating letter. And that's actually, we're, that's what prompted this kind of rant that I'm going on is that very letter. Todd DeVoe: I find that interesting; the letter is similar to the one California sent to the federal government, specifically talking about immigration and not working with ICE. California said, Nope, we're not gonna work with you. Yeah. We're not even gonna turn over detainees to you. Even though you have a warrant, we're gonna release him to the street, and you guys can go find him and pick him up. Kelly McKinney: So New York city saying the same thing. Yeah. They tell them the same. Todd DeVoe: So it's not all like it is only the red states if you will, that push back against the federal government, it's, there are blue states that are saying the same thing, but just for different reasons, that's right.Kelly McKinney: A hundred percent, so you got, okay, you got it on the right. You got it on the left, and here's the bizarre part. I think 90% of the middle is this silent majority, like you and me is just Hey, just get along for Christ's sake. I don't, all this stuff you're talking about, listen, I'm not saying it's not essential, but I, I just wanna, I just want the USA to stay together.I want us to work through these things. I want us to be a reason. And yet we're getting, we are getting pulled apart by the right and the left here. And it's, that's the scariest part is that when it's all said and done the damage, it's a toxic environment, and poisonous means people don't give a s**t if they burn it down. Burn it down. Both sides. Yeah. It's the Todd DeVoe: the crazy part about it. It's yeah. It's like you hear the rhetoric, then the socialist and ANTIFA crowd. And they're just like, ah, and then you hear the rhetoric coming from the pro-Trump the far right. Side the, whatever, then what do you call those guys? I know it, the boys, what are they called? Not the boo boys. The Proud boys like that side of the thing and are the opposite sides of the same coin. They just wanna fight, and whether they're saying in the street, which seems to be like up in Portland, there appears to be a lot going on.The scary part about it is that people listen to it. And my friend Brian and I have this conversation all the time about Brian's, oh, it's off for the show, which I agree. A lot of it is correct. Like these, they go. They do the LARPing battles. They know they hit each other with trash can lids or whatever.A lot of it's like kids in high school that doesn't wanna fight. But they puff their chest up, and nothing really ever happens in the case of the ANTIFA Vs. The Proud Boys, at some point, something will. Somebody will bring a gun or stab somebody, or something like that will occur. And that will just, that, that's the part that scares me is that the two loud mouths and the two bullies, if you will, on either side, get together. And one of them decides to go down, and that's all it takes because, if you think about the first civil war South Carolina was the one who said, okay, we'll shoot, And that was it. Before that, it was just a lot of just rhetoric going back and forth. No? Kelly McKinney: And you're precisely correct. And you think about Virginia, North Carolina, and these other big states. I don't think I don't know that it would've initiated the civil war in those big states, but you're right. South Carolina went ahead, and it's always that way. It's always the kind of, and I'm not, I don't wanna say anything against South Carolina. It's a great state. But I think you're right. I think it's gonna be the, it's gonna be the the the irrational, the people, think about this mass shooting wave that has swept over us, right? Who perpetrates these mass shootings?They're, they are, they're young males with basically nothing to lose. They are at the bottom. Of societal society in terms of their power, there, what did I hear this term? You've heard they're the, there, the unwilling to celebrate or...Todd DeVoe: what do they call them? I know what you're talking about. Yeah. I don't remember the term precisely, but yeah, you, the ones that can't get girlfriends. Kelly McKinney: yeah. They're "incels" or something, and they. Yeah. And so these are the people, and I don't wanna say losers, but the losers are gonna are go. They wanna bring society down with them.Kelly McKinney: They want everybody to lose. And guess what? I don't, I don't want to lose, I don't want to go there with you. I have no interest in it, in your agendas, whether it's right, left, or otherwise, my agenda. I don't want to work the disaster you're gonna create. I just want to have I want people to be reasonable and get along so that we can.Kelly McKinney: Know, we can teach our kids and build, create jobs and people can, have families and do what they wanna do. And that's not, we'll get back to that, Todd, but I think it might get a lot worse before it gets much better. Todd DeVoe: in that. I think so, too. That scares me; I have a 19-year-old, and I have a nine-year-old, and I try to see what the world's gonna shape up for them and what legacy we're leaving for them.Todd DeVoe: And it, it doesn't. Doesn't give me warm feelings to...Kelly McKinney: what's gonna happen? That's what it's all about. It's about nine years old. Let's keep this s**t together for the nine-year-olds. Can we, how, is that too much to ask? Cause they, they deserve to have they deserve everything that every opportunity we have, and, we're talking about the United States, we're talking about, and that's the other thing. Kelly McKinney: My, I, I think a lot of this teenager they, they're all spun up. They're, they're in TikTok all day long. They have no perspective. Go to Africa, Haiti, and places where people don't have anything.Kelly McKinney: And you wanna burn this down yeah, you end up, you want it to be, you want, you wanna turn it into a failed state. Todd DeVoe: That's why I believe. I really honestly think that we should have. I don't like the idea of forced military service. Essentially. I don't think that's good for everybody. Still, I believe that we should have mandatory service of some kind, whether you choose to go in the military, whether you go into the disaster corps for two years, whether you go into r the Peace Corps, whether you go into some sort of conservation core, something like that, where you have to do service to your community, whether it's a federal government program or a state government program, you have to give service back to the community.Todd DeVoe: And I really would like to see. The very wealthy people serving skid row in Los Angeles. Yeah. And it, saying, oh yeah, there is another side. And whether they're dealing with crazies or whatever, if they're going down into San Francisco and having to clean, poop off the street because of the homeless, at least they understand what the cause is.Todd DeVoe: Because right now, the wealthy you're able to insulate the. From it, and I have to be, I'm guilty. I'm guilty of it. My children are pretty well protected from that nasty stuff. That's happening because we're in orange county, California, and we have the luxury. Not having to go downtown Los Angeles, but when they're of age, when they can handle the stresses of stuff putting 'em into that situation, I think is appropriate.Todd DeVoe: And maybe I should, that's necessarily shelter, but perhaps I should do a better job of not insulating my children. Aspects of the world because my son isn't, my son went on mission trips and stuff. So he went to those areas where he was really. Yeah. So he understands Kelly McKinney: That's, I think if you engage, it and mission trips and my son's been on mission trips and my daughter's been on them.Kelly McKinney: And I agree with you. I think that service thing is super important. And I also agree with the other thing you said, which. This income inequality is exacerbating because the 1% is incredibly wealthy these days. This is what this is.Kelly McKinney: And it may be the primary driver of this social fabric giving away this vast income equality? And so, you know, these are forces that we can't control, but as emergency managers, it's definitely job security, man. Holy crap.Kelly McKinney: There's no there's gonna be no shortage of work, that's for sure. Todd DeVoe: Absolutely. Hey Kelly, thank you so much for spending time with me today. It's always a pleasure talking to my friend. Kelly McKinney: Thank you, man. It's great. Great talking to you as always, Todd, and take care. Get full access to The Emergency Management Network at emnetwork.substack.com/subscribe

New York State Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett discusses the many health challenges facing New Yorkers including monkeypox, COVID-19 and now polio.

We speak with the New York state health commissioner about monkeypox. Our political observer Alan Chartock speaks with Dr. Don Levy about a new Siena poll. Also, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer comes to Albany to push President Biden to name upstate New York the epicenter of American chip manufacturing. Photo courtesy of Mary Bassett's official Twitter page.

Hear NYS Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett talking about monkeypox and the new statewide emergency. Also Jay Moran takes you behind the scenes for rehearsals at Inclusive Theater of Buffalo's one act play festival. MusicalFare cancels the remaining performances of "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder", and Elderwood pays a fine after federal prosecutors accused them of billing irregularities.

On this episode we welcome Mary Bassett back to the studio to talk about Quantum Healing, Past Life Regression and her upcoming event on the U.S.S. Edson in Bay City Michigan.

On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, the battle for Ukraine's cities is thundering through the suburbs, with the Ukranian military blocking Russian forces from a key highway and the invaders increasing air raids that have caused uncounted deaths and destruction. The U.N said that more than 3.5 million people have filed Ukraine since the invasion. The Russian military days it will continue using state-of-the-art hypersonic Kinzhal missiles to hit key targets. Meanwhile, Germany's parliament has paid tribute to Boris Romanchenko, who survived several Nazi concentration camps during World War II, but was killed last week during an attack in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. He was 96.

Dr. Mary Bassett, New York State Commissioner of Health, says the COVID Omicron variant is still exposing health inequities — African Americans in New York have been hospitalized twice as much as the majority population during this latest wave. Bassett says achieving health equity “will be the North Star of my working life as a physician committed to public health.” Bassett also tells Conversations on Health Care hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter that the state has four times as many hospitalized now compared to the pandemic lull last summer. Yet she also notes the hospitalization and case rates are going down. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play HealthcareNOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

Two years after New York was largely shut down because of the coronavirus, the city is now seeing the pendulum swing back: most school children no longer have to wear masks in schools, and businesses aren't required to request proof of vaccination from their customers. But, as health experts warn, this doesn't mean the pandemic is over. The state health commissioner, Dr. Mary Bassett, and the city health commissioner, Dr. Dave Chokshi, join Errol to reflect on New York's response to the pandemic and encourage New Yorkers to keep taking certain precautions.   JOIN THE CONVERSATION Join the conversation, weigh in on Twitter using the hashtag #NY1YouDecide or give us a call at 212-379-3440 and leave a message. Or send an email toYourStoryNY1@charter.com

Dr. Mary Bassett, New York State Commissioner of Health, says the COVID Omicron variant is still exposing health inequities — African Americans in New York have been hospitalized twice as much as the majority population during this latest wave. Bassett says achieving health equity “will be the North Star of my working life as a physician committed to public health.” Bassett also tells Conversations on Health Care hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter that the state has four times as many hospitalized now compared to the pandemic lull last summer. Yet she also notes the hospitalization and case rates are going down.

Dr. Mary Bassett, New York State Commissioner of Health, says the COVID Omicron variant is still exposing health inequities — African Americans in New York have been hospitalized twice as much as the majority population during this latest wave. Bassett says achieving health equity “will be the North Star of my working life as a physician committed to public health.” Bassett also tells Conversations on Health Care hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter that the state has four times as... Read More Read More The post Omicron's Health Inequities: N.Y. State Health Commissioner Vows to Close Gap appeared first on Healthy Communities Online.

New York State Health Commissioner Mary Bassett, MD, MPH, talks about the omicron wave -- including the new variant which is not a variant of concern -- ideal masking through mask mandates, and the effectiveness of vaccine boosters. 

It's Day 42 of the MLB Lockout

VIDEO: BYOBLOB, SPECIALE DI FINE ANNO..Per non dimenticare! ➜ https://www.byoblu.com/2021/12/31/byoblob-speciale-di-fine-anno-per-non-dimenticare/TESTO DELL'ARTICOLO ➜ www.bastabugie.it/it/articoli.php?id=6855GENITORI MARTELLATI DALLA PROPAGANDA PER VACCINARE I FIGLIRivelazione choc negli Usa: anche Anthony Fauci ammette che c'è un allarme esagerato infatti i bambini ricoverati sono semmai con il Covid, non per il Covid (VIDEO: Per non dimenticare due anni di balle sul Covid)da Blog di Nicola PorroChe l'allarme sul Covid dei bambini fosse sospetto, almeno nella tempistica (i minori, prima sostanzialmente risparmiati dal virus, ne sono diventati le vittime predilette giusto quando è diventato disponibile il vaccino), ce ne eravamo resi conto. Forse, però, non ci aspettavamo che cadessero così presto i veli sulle "nobili bugie" raccontate da esperti e politici per spingerci a obbedire ai mantra pandemici.In questi giorni, ad esempio, tante facce fresche, che per un anno ci avevano assicurato che con le iniezioni saremmo usciti dall'incubo, senza battere ciglio, stanno cambiando versione: "Eh, ma noi non abbiamo mai detto che il vaccino proteggeva dal contagio; la scienza non è infallibile; lo stato delle conoscenze, quando parlavamo, era un altro; la situazione evolve, ci sono le varianti...". Eccetera eccetera: i cervelloni, protagonisti del disastro italiano, hanno ragione pure se hanno avuto torto. Perché i vaccini hanno sì raggiunto uno straordinario risultato, cioè disaccoppiare i contagi dalle manifestazioni gravi della malattia e dai decessi, però non ci hanno certo salvato dal virus, come speravamo.Intanto, però, anche un altro altarino è stato svelato: qualcuno, Oltreoceano, ora ammette di aver deliberatamente gonfiato l'allarme sul coronavirus nei bimbi, per indurre i genitori a vaccinarli.Succede tutto il 27 dicembre, a New York. Mary Bassett, commissario per la Salute, è insieme al governatore democratico dello Stato, Kathy Hochul. E durante la conferenza stampa, tra le altre cose, afferma: "Con i numeri che abbiamo dato a proposito dei ricoveri pediatrici non intendevamo far sembrare che i bambini stessero avendo un'epidemia di infezioni. Erano numeri piccoli quelli che abbiamo riportato nel nostro bollettino sanitario, basati su 50 ospedalizzazioni. Ora vi ho fornito numeri più ampi, ma sono lo stesso cifre contenute. In realtà è per motivare i pediatri e le famiglie a cercare la protezione del vaccino". Talmente chiaro, che non serve certo la parafrasi: siamo di fronte a una rappresentante delle istituzioni che ammette che l'enfasi sul Covid nei minori aveva scopi essenzialmente propagandistici.D'altronde, anche Anthony Fauci è stato costretto a gettare la maschera. Giovedì scorso, ospite di Msnbc, ha dichiarato: "Se guardate ai bambini ricoverati, molti di loro sono ricoverati con il Covid, non a causa del Covid [...]. Se un bimbo va in ospedale, automaticamente viene sottoposto a un test per il Covid e viene conteggiato come una persona ricoverata per Covid". Di nuovo, cristallino: non solo i numeri dei ricoveri pediatrici sono contenuti, ma - lo dice il virologo mito della sinistra anti Trump, certo non tacciabile di negazionismo - molti di essi finiscono in corsia per altre patologie, altri disturbi, altri malori e, accertata la loro positività a un tampone di routine, vengono inseriti nei bollettini dei pazienti Covid. Anche se, magari, sono entrati in ospedale per una caviglia slogata. [...] Giù le mani - e le siringhe - dai nostri figli.

Guests: Dr. Peter Hotez, Mary Bassett, Julie K. Brown, Joyce Vance, Eric Levitz, Amanda Mull, Donna Edwards, Tim MillerTonight: Where we stand as we approach year three of the pandemic, as the CDC defends the decision to cut Covid isolation. Then, a measure of justice in the Epstein saga: the significance of tonight's guilty verdict for Ghislaine Maxwell. Plus, the surprising area where Democrats are having success against the push to undermine democracy. And the state now proposing a bounty for parents who find banned books in school.

On this week’s Gazette: New York Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett has tested positive for COVID-19. Governor Kathy Hochul made the announcement in a Monday briefing that also documented the worsening situation in the state as the omicron variant spreads. Our political observer Alan Chartock discusses his conversation with Albany County DA David Soares about bail reform. Also, we’ll report on a new business survey, which finds Capital Region employers will keep hiring in the new year. Photo courtesy of Mary Bassett’s official Twitter.

On this week's Gazette: New York Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett has tested positive for COVID-19. Governor Kathy Hochul made the announcement in a Monday briefing that also documented the worsening situation in the state as the omicron variant spreads. Our political observer Alan Chartock discusses his conversation with Albany County DA David Soares about bail reform. Also, we'll report on a new business survey, which finds Capital Region employers will keep hiring in the new year. Photo courtesy of Mary Bassett's official Twitter.

COVID cases are surging in the Northeast. New York state broke a daily case count on Sunday, reporting more than 22,000 cases.New York Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett, who tested positive for COVID Monday, is warning infection rates and hospitalizations will likely keep rising. VPR gets the view from the New York's North Country.

Tonight on We Are Paradox Media's "Late Night in the Rockies" Weekend Host TessaTNT is joined by Psychic Mary Bassett. We will be discussing the paranormal, psychic gifts, hauntings, channeling spirits, spiritual guides as well as doing Free Psychic Readings at 970-335-9596.

Dr. Stephen Lee, Executive Director of the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors, talks about World AIDS Day and the opportunities for public health agencies; Dr. Umair Shah, Washington's Secretary of Health, explains how personal challenges help him connect with people in his state; Dr. Mary Bassett begins work today as New York's new commissioner of health; and ASTHO provides details of key job openings. ASTHO Blog Article: World AIDS Day 2021 – Ending the HIV Epidemic World AIDS Day webpage New York State webpage: Governor Hochul Appoints Dr. Mary T. Bassett as Commissioner of the Department of Health ASTHO webpage: Job Opportunities in Public Health and at ASTHO

This week, New York Governor Kathy Hochul has named former New York City Health Commissioner Mary Bassett to lead the state’s health department. Our political observer discusses the idea of universal healthcare in New York. Also, a COVID vaccine mandate for healthcare workers started this week in New York — and with it, a fear of staffing shortages at medical facilities. Photo courtesy of Mary Bassett’s official Twitter page.

September 29, 2021 - Assembly Health Committee Chair Dick Gottfried, a Manhattan Democrat, reflects on Dr. Howard Zucker's time as the state's top health official and explains why he is excited about Dr. Mary Bassett being tapped to run the state's Department of Health.

A good, big-hearted person is one you should listen to. Special guest Dr. Mary Bassett

During the earliest days of the pandemic, younger people were told to protect the older adults in their lives from COVID-19 by isolating at home. Concerns about the virus and pandemic restrictions have taken a toll on everyone's mental well-being. But it turns out that when it comes to mental health, older adults might actually be faring better than their children and grandchildren. On this episode of Better Off, aging and mental health expert Oliva Okereke explains why.Guest: Olivia Okereke, associate professor in the department of epidemiology at Harvard Chan School, director of geriatric psychiatry in the department of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, and associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.For a full transcript of this episode, visit our website. Subscribe to get new episodes of Better Off in your podcast feed every other Wednesday.Read more about Mary Bassett's work, as well as the latest news from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health at hsph.harvard.edu/news.Music in this episode:Ketsa – SabreBlue Dot Sessions – Willow BelleBlue Dot Sessions – Selena LeicaBlue Dot Sessions – Trenton ChannelKetsa – Onwards Upwards 

In this issue, Prof. Vickie Mays, Jody Heymann, and Mary Bassett discuss the contents of the supplement guest-edited by Vickie Mays and Susan Cochran,(UCLA), entitled When Dying Really Counts. It is about which data a public health surveillance system should be collecting to reduce and not worsen health inequalities. This discussion is a formidable reminder that public health involves the art of making sense of population data to generate health and equity.

This week Farai Chideya looks at what makes it into our history books—and why—with New York Times investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of the 1619 Project. Then she talks with poet and philanthropist Elizabeth Alexander about how monuments and public spaces also shape our historical narrative. Dr. Mary Bassett of Harvard University shares what she thinks it will take to truly address healthcare inequities laid bare by Covid-19, and how that would prepare us for the next epidemic. And the weekly roundtable Sippin’ the Political Tea welcomes special guests Kyhisha Zebley, a police sergeant in Philadelphia, and Gabriela Mejia, an anti-harassment advocate at the organization Hollaback!, to talk about how to be a safe and effective bystander during encounters with police.1:05 Nikole Hannah-Jones on why teaching the 1619 Project is a free speech issue12:41 Poet Elizabeth Alexander on the role of public spaces in teaching history20:59 Dr. Mary Bassett talks about lessons learned from Zimbabwe’s healthcare system29:15 Sippin’ the Political Tea: how to be a safe witness to police brutality with a law enforcement officer and an anti-harassment advocate

This spring, public health officials have been laser-focused on getting more Americans vaccinated against COVID-19. So why do racial disparities persist around vaccination? And once more Americans are vaccinated, how do we ensure that Black and Latino families aren’t left vulnerable to future public health crises? In the latest episode of Better Off, Mary Bassett talks about the historical roots of health inequities, and the big changes needed to close those gaps.Guest: Mary T. Bassett, director of the François Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University.For a full transcript of this episode, visit our website. Subscribe to get new episodes of Better Off in your podcast feed every other Wednesday.Read more about Mary Bassett's work, as well as the latest news from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health at hsph.harvard.edu/news. Music in this episode:Ketsa – SabreBlue Dot Sessions – LupiBlue Dot Sessions – The Caspian SeaBlue Dot Session – An Oddly Formal DanceKetsa – Onwards Upwards

in this second part of This Week in Tudor History, historian Claire Ridgway introduces Sir Christopher Blount, a secret agent and rebel who married his master’s widow and whose stepson, the Earl of Essex was his undoing; Edmund Harman, the man who trimmed and washed King Henry VIII’s hair and beard, and who was rewarded for it; Mary Bassett, Sir Thomas More's granddaughter, who was a highly educated Tudor woman and gifted translator; and Sir John Leveson (pronounced Looson), a Puritan and soldier whose later life was marred by a falling out over money.   You can see this podcast as a video at the following link: https://youtu.be/YD9Fxxn3MLI   18th March 1601 - The execution of Sir Christopher Blount, husband of Lettice Knollys (other married names: Devereux and Dudley), and stepfather of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex. He was executed for treason after support the 1601 Essex's Rebellion.   19th March 1577 - Death of Edmund Harman, former barber to King Henry VIII and a man who is depicted in Hans Holbein the Younger’s painting, Henry VIII and the Barber Surgeons.   20th March 1572 - Death of Mary Bassett (née Roper), granddaughter of Sir Thomas More and a gifted translator.   21st March 1555 - Birth of Puritan Sir John Leveson, Kent landowner and Deputy Lieutenant of Kent, at Whornes Place in Cuxton in Kent.   -- Claire Ridgway Historian and author, founder of the Anne Boleyn Files and Tudor Society www.theanneboleynfiles.com www.tudorsociety.com https://twitter.com/AnneBoleynFiles http://www.facebook.com/theanneboleynfiles https://www.instagram.com/anneboleynfiles/ https://twitter.com/thetudorsociety https://www.facebook.com/tudorsociety/ https://www.instagram.com/tudor.society/

The Lancet's new Commission, Public Policy and Health in the Trump Era, looks back at the effects of the last four years on the health of the USA. One of the authors of the Commission, Mary Bassett (Harvard University) joins us to talk about the Commission findings and wider issues facing the USA.

Abdul explains the race between virus and vaccine. He reflects on how history’s racism is shaping the COVID-19 response today. He talks to Dr. Mary Bassett, Director of the FXB Center for Health & Human Rights at Harvard and former Health Commissioner for New York City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We've talked about the underlying reasons that Black and Brown people have been hit disproportionately hard by this pandemic. But what can we do about it? On Today's Show:Mary Bassett, director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, as well as professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, talks about how to fight the disparate impact in who gets sick, and who dies, from COVID-19.

Mary Bassett, director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, as well as professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, talks about how to fight the disparate impact in who gets sick, and who dies, from COVID-19.

Author and Cryptozoologist Shetan Noir returned to WKTV studio, joining guest host Mary Bassett and your regular hosts Brandon Hoezee and Wayne Thomas. Together we discussed several aspects of the Bigfoot/Sasquatch phenomenon as well as Lake Monsters, Mothman, and Gargoyles O-My! Check it out and hear Shetan's version of "Samurai Chatter". See Shetan and some more of our friends Nov. 8th at the upcoming Mid Michigan Paranormal Conversation held in Flint, MI.

Why is police brutality a public health problem? Why is there a need for more evidence to control a phenomenon that is blatantly harmful at a mass scale? What should be the role of PH departments if funds are diverted from the police to social services? And is the current uprising some form of revolution? My four guests are Sirry Alang (Lehigh University), Mary Bassett (former Commissioner of Health for New York City), Lisa Bowleg, (George Washington University and AJPH), Leana Wen (former Baltimore's Health Commissioner).

On the 25th episode of Grand Rapids Ghost Hunters Paranormal Podcast, co-host Kim Kolean and Wayne Thomas welcome back multifaceted special guest, Mary Bassett. Mary shares intuitive Astrological insights of a social Ascension with predictions of a new world Awakening. A quick demonstration of her Hang Drum, tarot reading for Kim, and review of the importance of the Heart Chakra were just part of the fun experienced in the new, beautiful WKTV Studio.

It is easy to assume the death of the megacity as the virus rips through our nations. Density is an issue. Breathing on each other in enclosed spaces,... Zumba classesprevious issues of Exponential Viewin the Financial Times23 per centMary Bassett from Harvard UniversityindicateCitywidereinforced by Sameh Wahba of the World BankScaleCesar Hidalgo, said on my podcastsays Cesar HidalgoEuropean Environment AgencyFrom the 2018 UN report on urbanization:Source: UN, World Urbanization Prospects 2018Listen to my discussion with Adena FriedmanNor does San Francisco make the top ten.city mayors are looking to reclaim public space from cars and not clamouring to reduce their populationsargues that mobility in the US is decliningIt is available here.

Dr. Mary Bassett, Director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, as well as professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, talks about the longstanding health and socio-economic disparities that have made minorities more vulnerable to Covid-19.

What role does testing play in fighting this pandemic? Trump's mixed messages on testing, plus, should people, or their police officers be responsible for enforcing social distancing? On Today's Show:Dr. Mary Bassett, Director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, as well as professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, talks about the longstanding health and socio-economic disparities that have made minorities more vulnerable to Covid-19.

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Dr. Mary Bassett, Director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, reflects on white supremacy as a determinant of health, lessons learned from the radical health movement, Black reparations, and advice for the next generation organizing to dismantle white supremacy in health systems.

Zach welcomes Dr. Oni Blackstock, the assistant commissioner for the Bureau of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control for the NYC Health Department, to the podcast to discuss a wide variety of topics, ranging from her unique career journey to dismantling white supremacist constructs, and she graciously offers a couple points of recommendation regarding how to get started when it comes to advocating for yourself to get the health-related help that you may need at work.Connect with Dr. Blackstock on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram!Visit Living-Corporate.com.TRANSCRIPTZach: What's up, y'all? It's Zach with Living Corporate, and look, man, you know what we do. It's 2020. You know, fresh vision. You know, we're out here making moves, having conversations with movers and shakers, influencers, educators, public servants... what else? Who else? Executives, recruiters, entertainers. You know what I'm saying? Anybody who's willing to have an authentic conversation centering and amplifying underrepresented voices at work, and today, you know, I'm really excited about this particular interview. And I say that every time, but, like, I mean it every single time, even though I say it, like, over and over, but I really do mean it. And so I'm really excited. This particular episode we have Dr. Oni Blackstock. Dr. Blackstock, how are you doing? What's going on? Oni: I'm good. Thanks so much for having me.Zach: Thank you so much for joining us. Now, look, what I would like to do--'cause see, what I sometimes do, in the past I would give this, like, kind of, like, generic--I don't want to say generic, but I would, like, read off an intro, almost like a late-night show, and then I'd go in and I'd ask people to introduce themselves again. It seems kind of redundant, so what I want to do this time is just give you space and, for those of us who don't know you, just give you some space to talk a little bit about yourself.Oni: Okay, great. So again, I'm Oni Blackstock. I'm a primary care physician and HIV specialist. I also spent about the past 10 years conducting HIV research, but I now lead the Bureau of HIV at the New York City Health Department, meaning I oversee our city's response to ending the HIV epidemic. I'm originally from Brooklyn, New York. Parents, my dad is an immigrant from Jamaica, and my mom is Brooklyn-born and bred. And I have a twin sister, Dr. Uche Blackstock, and, you know, we're very much inspired by our parents to really meld medicine and public health with activism and advocacy, and so I get to do that in my current role leading the Bureau of HIV here in New York City.Zach: Okay. So first of all, incredible background, incredible legacy, and shout-out to the Blackstocks, the family, and shout-out to your sister of course as well. So I know, you know, the background being Jamaican--now, you know we do air horns. Now, let me ask you this. I've asked past Jamaican guests, but it is offensive or culturally appropriative that we also use air horns on our podcast?Oni: No, not at all. It's great. It's about the diaspora. Zach: Okay, cool, 'cause I gotta let 'em fly for you. Let me just drop 'em right here. [air horns sfx] Okay, 'cause I'm just very excited and thankful that you're here. Now, let's talk a little bit more about your background, right? So you talk about your focus being HIV and that particular illness. What was it about that work that drew you in particularly?Oni: Yeah. So I was in medical school when I feel like I quote-unquote first discovered HIV, and that was actually when I was doing global health work. So I had traveled to Ghana and West Africa, as well as South Africa, to do HIV-related research, and when I came back I did a rotation as a medical student back in New York City and saw that we had black people, Latino people, dealing with many of the same sort of medical-related issues, and even just sort of socio-structural issues, as I did when I was in Ghana and South Africa, and became very interested in our domestic HIV epidemic, and so I ended up doing my residency, which is the training that you do after medical school, in the Bronx at Montefiore Medical Center, where again I was seeing young black and brown people dying of, like, advanced AIDS, which was something I was really surprised and I think maybe people didn't realize was stlil happening in New York City. And I think what I in particular--what draws me to HIV is that it's really--it's not just an interesting bio-medical condition, but it's also, like, a social condition, and it's really an epidemic of not behavior, but an epidemic of inequality. So it's a confluence of lots of isms and lots of phobias, and you put all of those together and you sort of get HIV and you see the communities that are most impacted.Zach: And, you know, it's really interesting, this conversation particularly, because you're in a position where you're providing awareness and research and thought leadership and care for underrepresented, underserved populations--and often times stigmatized and just oppressed populations--while also being an intersectional member of a variety of underrepresented and oppressed populations and identity groups. Can you talk about, like, what that experience, that compounded experience, is like for you? Like, being in this space, being who you are?Oni: Right. Yeah, so I think what has driven me to do this work is because I'm from many of the different communities that are impacted by HIV. So I think sometimes for people who do this work it's maybe about careerism or they find it intellectually interesting, but for me it's really about helping my people and my community. So yeah, I mean, I think having the different identities, being a cisgender black woman, being someone who's queer and being at the intersection at these different marginalized identities gives me a different appreciation and understanding of what the factors are that folks are dealing with out in the community, and also the position. You know, even when we're designing, for instance, social marketing campaigns, like, I can say--you know, I'm able to give my input and--you know, we had a campaign, for instance, that was focused on pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP. It's a once-a-day pill that people who are HIV-negative can take to stay HIV-negative. We did one for a focus on cisgender and transgender women, women of all different backgrounds, but what I did notice that I think most other people didn't notice is that all of the women were very, like, fem-presenting, and so, you know, I was like, "In the future when we do this work, we might want to have folks who may be non-conforming in their appearance." You know, just have different folks who may identify as women but have a different gender expression. And so I think, like, just sort of that awareness of understanding the different needs that may be out there of having these different perspectives is something that I think I can bring to this role and I think is, you know, really important, because the reality is that in many cities we don't have people who are leading this type of work who are reflective of the communities that are most impacted.Zach: You know, that's just a really good point. It's interesting because, you know, even as we talk about, like, representation and diversity in our marketing and, like, presentation, it's interesting how colorism and patriarchy still, like, sneak in to those spaces too, right? So, like, if you have--like, if you're presenting as a woman, often times it is going to be someone who is, like, traditionally fem or lighter-skinned or with hair that is a certain texture. Like, there's still, like, this template, right? That individuals are going to--that we either consciously or subconsciously seek to, like, place people in. Even when you see, like, people in positions of authority or any type of subject matter expertise in the space, you end up--I don't know. Again, they fit certain templates to me, and that leads me to another question though. Kind of starting at the top. So your lived experience brings a certain level of empathy along with your actual academic expertise. May I ask, are there ever moments or times where you believe that sometimes your lived experience or the passion that comes with that lived experience is almost counted against you because you lack a certain level of [laughs] intellectual objectivity that maybe white individuals or just folks who are not necessarily identifying these particular identity groups, that they can relate to?Oni: Well, I think--right, so that idea of, like, objectivity... I mean, it's, like, a construct. It's, like, a white supremacist construct, because we all come with our own perspectives and backgrounds. So it's sort of, like, a fallacy, I think, but yeah, I think that might happen. I think I am also fortunate, or maybe some might say unfortunate, but, you know, I did get my college degree at Harvard undergrad. I was a computer science major and I was pre-med. I went to Harvard Medical School. I got my Master's in Health Sciences from Yale's School of Medicine. So I have, like, sort of these bonafides that are sort of respected more by white culture, the dominant culture, which I feel like gives me quote-unquote credibility among some of these folks, if that makes any sense. So I feel like that somehow, like, helps to open doors in a different way, and then obviously having--you know, and sometimes just even having an MD, people make assumptions, and sometimes you can use those to your benefit, which is helpful. But, you know, at the same time, it does feel--it's kind of cringe-worthy and kind of not the best feeling to be benefitting from these same systems which also act to, like, oppress us as well, so... [?]Zach: Well, it's complex and nuanced. I'm just curious about that, because as I continue to get into just this work, any time you talk about, like, underserved folks or, like, doing work that seeks to push for equity in certain spaces, there seems to be, like, this underlying kind of attitude sometimes, so I was just curious about that. You know, you just spoke about--you used one of the buzzwords that triggers a lot of fragility in today's society, white supremacy. I'm curious, you know, on Living Corporate we've discussed the concept of decolonization, and one of the ways that we've seen colonization demonstrated is in language. Can we talk a little bit about medical terms that, intentionally or unintentionally, undermine the reality and complexity of systemic racism and other isms and various forms of oppression?Oni: Sure. Okay, so I think any term that, like, focuses the issue on the individual as opposed to, like, the structures and systems that drive risk and disease and poor health and poor well-being, so--I mean, for me, I mean, there's [?]--I actually tweeted about this recently. So, you know, terms like someone being a "medically-complex patient" or someone being high-risk or non-compliant really is about--you know, white supremacist culture puts the onus and responsibility on the individual and doesn't--you know, it ignores, like, completely, the context in which people are making decisions and choices. And so, you know, these are--you know, we're trying to, like, move away, at least at the Health Department, my bureau, from some of these terms, which are victim-blaming and lack recognition for these broader systems that increase risk for individuals.Zach: And I'm curious about that. Like, what does it look like to drive those conversations and to have folks say, like, "Stop. Let's take a step back and actually look at the systems that are impacting these individuals." Like, what does that look like? How do you broach those topics?Oni: Yeah. So I think one of the cool things here, at least the New York City Health Department, is the former health commissioner--her name is Dr. Mary Bassett. She's a black woman, and she started a whole initiative called Race to Justice, which was sort of an effort to understand and recognize the impact on racism on public health and health outcomes, and so by someone in her position sort of normalizing the conversations around racism really sort of opened the door for a lot of the work that I'm doing in my bureau with the staff here. So for instance, we received millions of dollars in funding from the federal government and from the city government that we then bid out in a competitive process to clinics and other community-based organizations to provide HIV prevention treatment services, and we were looking at this process and, you know, seeing that the same sort of large organizations that are typically not run by folks who look like the folks who are impacted tended to get a lot of the contracts. And so the great thing about being able to lead a bureau, lead an organization, is that we made sure that--we started looking at the process and figuring out "What are the ways that we could make this process more equitable?" But what we also did is in our request for a proposal we called out these different systems of oppression. You know, many times--before I came here, like, a lot of the requests for proposals would say things like "poverty" and "food insecurity," and it's like, "But what are the things that drive those things?" Right? Like, we need to call them out, and if we call them out, the organizations that we fund will know that these are issues that we are thinking about, and we're thinking explicitly about equity in this work, and so I made sure that in our request for a proposal that we use this language, that we don't just say people of color, that we say specifically the groups that are impacted. We say black and Latinx people. Like, you know, it's just calling it out and being really explicit and really putting it out there so that it becomes normalized and really part of the work that we do.Zach: And it's interesting, because I've noticed over the past--I would say since, I don't know, since... so over the past, like, decade or so. 'Cause I'm 30, so I've been working for about 9 or 10 years, right? So as I just kind of come into adulthood, just looking around, looking at the language that people use when it comes to just, like, systems of injustice or inequity, it's almost like they just--we use language that is... like things just happened. It's like we don't talk about how things are connected at all. I think I was reading some story about a young man who had a mistaken identity, and it said "A teen was hospitalized after being mis-identified by police." Well, no. He wasn't hospitalized because he was mis-identified by police. He was hospitalized because he was beaten by the police because he mis-identified him. It's almost like we take out the action or the accountability in the language and framing that we place. So let's do this. As you know, since the publication of Healthy People 2020, it's been confirmed that stress is one of the primary drivers of racial and socio-economic health disparities. Can we talk a little bit about the practical impacts of chronic stress for black and brown folks and how it shows up when it's under-treated? And then, you know, as you talk through a bit about what that looks like, I guess my Part B to that question is what are things that black and brown folks should be looking out for regarding their own stress and what ways can they advocate for themselves as patients?Oni: Mm-hmm. Yeah, so obviously these are, like, very weighty, big issues. You know, I think stress has, you know, wide-ranging impacts on our overall health and well-being. You know, when we are exposed to stress, or just the stress of being a black or brown person in this country--you know, I don't know if folks realize this, but it leads to, obviously, an elevation in [stress?] hormones like cortisol and nor-epinephrine and epinephrine, and those have, like, very harmful effects on the body. And so we can think about mental health, so, you know, depression and anxiety, and I have to--full disclosure, I myself am dealing with depression and anxiety, and I think a lot of it is attributed to really the chronic stress that we face, I think particularly in some of these professional work environments where we are held to very different standards than other people, and so having, you know, a support network and having a spiritual practice--which is something that I really want to develop more--are ways to really I think counteract these--you know, and the impact on the quality of sleep that we have, our metabolism, cardiovascular risk. You know, chronic stress predisposes us to a wide range of medical conditions, so yeah. So I think when we see--you know, a lot of the disparities or inequities that we see, you know, are driven by, you know, the impact of, you know, racism, and then it sometimes has direct, you know, effects on us, in terms of, like, the violence that, you know, is committed against us by police, but then also some of these indirect effects of dealing with chronic stress and the impact that it has on our bodies and minds.Zach: And I think--so I'll speak for myself in this example. I'm an example of this, right? Like, just kind of, like, moving and shaking in these spaces, finally taking a second to breathe and I'm looking back and I'm like, "Wait, I can't sleep. I'm having, like, auditory hallucinations. I'm, like, crying for no reason. Like, I feel sick." You know, there's all these different issues that have, like, you know, over time just been so untreated, and like, so, finally just now starting to get help for that. I'm curious though, what points of recommendation would you have for folks who are at the very beginning of this? Like, and how--what would you say to them who are just kind of looking to get started and kind of advocating for themselves to get the help that they need?Oni: Right. So I think, you know, obviously having a support network obviously is key, and so that people who are close to you, who you can speak to about, you know, the various stressors that you may have at work, in particular if you may be one of a few black people, or even if you aren't one of a few black or brown people. You know, our experiences in the workplace are very different from other people's. So definitely having a support network, and I think also not waiting for people to check in on you, but also to the extent that you can sharing with, like, your family and loved ones, particularly those who will be helpful, like, how you are feeling, 'cause I think sometimes, for many of us, we are very high-functioning, and so when you--you may be depressed, feeling depression and anxiety, but you are, like, highly productive. You're getting things done. You have a family. You have a great job. But, you know, you still need support, and it may not be, like, overtly obvious to your family. So I think, to the extent that we can, reaching out when we can. Obviously, you know, for instance, depression can sometimes impact people's ability to motivate and to be able to reach out to people, so obviously then we have to check on each other. I think also something that I have been increasingly learning is having some sort of, like, spiritual practice or some way of, like, grounding yourself, whether it's yoga or meditation or prayer. Whatever it is or whoever you pray to, having that be a regular part of your day and of your practice is I think incredibly important, because, like, you know, it's very hard to change these systems, and for the most part we have ourselves and we have our support networks. And so those are some of the recommendations that I would have. And I think also mentorship. If folks have mentors who, you know, have been in similar fields, or maybe even in a different field but can provide guidance and support, that makes a huge, huge difference. And also peer mentors as well, having folks who may be going through similar experiences as you where you can kind of commune and, like, come together and commiserate and also be helpful.Zach: You know, it's interesting. So you talked a little bit about your twin sister Dr. Uche Blackstock, and recently she published an article titled "Why Black Doctors Like Me Are Leaving Faculty Positions In Academic Medical Centers," and in the piece, towards the end of it, she says, "Academic medical centers must begin to recognize and rectify the historical and current impact of racism on the health care workforce. Their leaders should listen actively and respond accordingly to the concerns of black faculty members and students, adopt an anti-racist philosophy, and, through a lens of racial equity, intentionally commit the time, effort and resources required to dismantle the structural racism and white supremacy embedded in their current institutional cultures." Now, your work--again, we've been talking about it this entire conversation--is to combat the attitudes and white supremacist institutions that not only create but thrive off of inequity. I'm curious, in your mind, what incentives do these institutions have to actually make substantive, long-standing institutional changes?Oni: Yeah, that's a really tough question. You know, I think what we see motivates folks in society tends to be financial incentives, so I think if there is something in it, like, sort of profit-wise for these institutions, like, that can be helpful. I really don't know, because I think, you know, for many of these institutions--you know, I work at a government agency. The government has played a role for more than a century or two, probably several centuries, in perpetuating, you know, racist policies, and I think--you know, nowadays obviously we want to do the right thing and rectify things, but there's still--you know, the workplace here reflects what we see outside. Like, the public health department isn't immune from the inequities that we see outside, and I think that it requires really visionary leadership and commitment to change, but what it also requires is, like, white people to step to the side and there to be more leadership opportunities for black and brown people, and I think that's really a struggle. I think people support the idea of equity in theory, but then in practice it looks really different. I think, even just from conversations I had today with some of my staff, you know, in practice it can feel very uncomfortable. I think there's that saying, like, "When you're used to privilege, equity feels like oppression," or something like that. Yeah, so it's like, you know, when the going gets rough and you're really wanting to institute these changes, I mean, there's gonna be--there's tremendous pushback and resistance, and they're the reason why things have stayed the way that they are. So I have to be honest, I don't have, like, an answer. I would be curious to know about institutions that have had transformations and have done this well. It's a process. I know here at the agency, at the health department in New York City, you know, since Dr. Bassett came in 2014, and then the initiative started I believe in 2015, you know, it's slow-going, because these are, like, processes and structures that have been in place for centuries that we're now trying to undo. So I think--there's this organization that we work with called Race Forward, and they talk about equity being both a process and an outcome, and so we try to emphasize the process part, because people often want to see, you know, concrete change, and where there's an opportunity to show concrete change we try to, but we realize that this work takes a long time.Zach: So, you know, out of respect to the time, you know, I haven't been putting a lot of sound effects in, but let me just tell you, you've been casually dropping crazy Flex bombs this entire interview. So I just want to react to that. [Flex bomb sfx] You was also lighting 'em up like [blatblatblat sfx], you know what I'm saying? [both laugh]Oni: Wow, that's impressive.Zach: Thank you very much. I appreciate it. That was also Cardi B, ladies and gentlemen.Oni: Oh, I love her.Zach: [Cardi B "ow" sfx] All right, so let's do this. Before we let you go, we typically give folks space, shout-outs, parting words. What you got for us?Oni: Wow. Okay, so I would say that I'm sure many of your listeners or people who have been quite successful by this society's standards, and I think often, like, we use, you know, degrees and job titles and stuff to, you know, say how successful we've been, but what I realized, you know, with the different leadership opportunities I've had, the different degrees I've gotten, it's really about finding happiness. I know it sounds really hackneyed and trite, but really doing the internal work to be happy regardless of whether you have, like, these accolades or not, because, like, my leadership job here and my degrees aren't gonna keep me, like--you know, happy at night, you know? Like, it's really believing in myself and that, you know, regardless of whether I'm working in a clinic, whether I'm leading the Bureau of HIV in the health department, I still--you know, I am really the work of, like, all of my ancestors who came before me. I, like, represent everything that they have been through, so to then think about success in, like, this white supremacist framework would not be something that they would be happy about. So I just try to, like, think about, you know, the family members and [?] that got me here and really about my own self-worth and happiness and not to measure that by these different accolades and positions and degrees.Zach: Wow. You know what? Just shout-out to you. Like, this is incredible. You know, there are people--I will say this as we wrap up--you know, there are people that I--that Living Corporate and myself individually, but also, like, our team, will, like, look for to get on the platform, and we'll look at their social media and we'll be like, "Dang, they look like they're real spicy on social media," then they get on the podcast and they're not as spicy. It's kind of like, "Come on, what are you doing?" But, like, I feel like you have matched, if not exceeded, your spiciness. Like, if I was to rate it, like, it is higher. Like, three curry goats, like, [?]. Anyway, it's great. All right, now, look, y'all. This has been dope. Y'all know what we do. We're having these conversations every single week, coming to y'all with dope conversations. This has been Zach. You have been talking to Dr. Blackstock, okay? Dr. Blackstock is the assistant commissioner of the NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, focusing on HIV prevention and research and study, doing all the amazing things up in New York. Let's see here. What else? You know, check us out on Instagram @LivingCorporate, Twitter @LivingCorp_Pod, and check us out on our website www.living-corporate.com--please say the dash. We do livingcorporate.co, livingcorporate.tv, livingcorporate.org, .net. We have all of the livingcorporates. 'Cause, see, people hit me up, Dr. Blackstock, and they'll be like, "What's the website?" And I'm like, "Look, it's livingcorporate.co or living-corporate.com," but people go livingcorporate.com, and then it pops up some Australian website, and I'm like, "Look, we don't have that domain. We have all the other domains." So you gotta make sure--you know, you gotta keep with us. You know, don't slow down. Keep up. You might get left behind. So my biggest thing right now is I want y'all to make sure y'all check the show notes, y'all look at the research and the work that Dr. Blackstock is doing. Make sure that you educate for yourself, advocate for yourself, shoot, and stay courageous out here. Did y'all hear all the stuff she was saying? Casually. She works for the government and she's talking about white supremacy. What you talking about? She's not scared, you know what I mean? Ain't nobody coming up here talking about [Law and Order sfx], you know? She's not afraid, okay? She's ready.Oni: And Zach, can I just say really quickly just as--I don't know if I'm an OG now 'cause I'm over 40, but I just want to say that I'm incredibly proud of you and this effort that you have and your Living Corporate podcast. It's really wonderful to see young people just thriving, so congratulations.Zach: Oh, my goodness. Well, look, we're both thriving, and I'm just over here like [look at us sfx]. You know? That's a Paul Rudd reference, everybody. Okay. All right, y'all. 'Til next time. This has been Zach. Again, you've been listening to me chop it up with Dr. Blackstock. 'Til next time. Peace.

Grand Rapids Ghost Hunters welcomes a unique duo of Paranormal Podcaster's, Mary Bassett and stepdaughter Sara Bassett. Through her Spiritual Voices Podcast Mary offers meditation for spiritual awakening and a monthly Astrology forecast. Together a.k.a. "mama Mary and GG" have a passion for your spiritual discovery on their Paranormal XL Podcast where they talk about "all things paranormal" from ghosts to aliens. This dynamic duo is on mission to bring love, light, and healing to those who need it. We examine some more crystals used in meditation and discuss the 7 major chakras with Reiki Master, Mary Bassett. Enjoy the experience.

Shelly Greenfield to unpacks the stigma that surrounds addiction. A psychiatrist from Harvard’s McLean hospital, Greenfield specializes in addiction—how patients cope with it, how it factors into treatment, and how it works its way slowly into policy. Greenfield sat down with Mary Bassett, director of Harvard’s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights.You can subscribe to Harvard Chan: This Week in Health by visiting Apple Podcasts or Google Play and you can listen to it by following us on Soundcloud, and stream it on the Stitcher app or on Spotify.

Shelly Greenfield to unpacks the stigma that surrounds addiction. A psychiatrist from Harvard’s McLean hospital, Greenfield specializes in addiction—how patients cope with it, how it factors into treatment, and how it works its way slowly into policy. Greenfield sat down with Mary Bassett, director of Harvard’s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights. Full Transcript: https://hsph.me/stigma-pod You can subscribe to Harvard Chan: This Week in Health by visiting Apple Podcasts or Google Play and you can listen to it by following us on Soundcloud, and stream it on the Stitcher app or on Spotify.

Physicians’ over-prescription of opioid painkillers opened the door to the current opioid crisis. What can health care providers do to fix it? Chad Brummett, a pain management specialist from the University of Michigan, shares a new approach to combat Michigan's opioid crisis that could be a model for the rest of the nation. Brummett sat down with Mary Bassett, director of Harvard’s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights. Full Transcript: https://hsph.me/prescription-pod You can subscribe to Harvard Chan: This Week in Health by visiting Apple Podcasts or Google Play and you can listen to it by following us on Soundcloud, and stream it on the Stitcher app or on Spotify.

Physicians’ over-prescription of opioid painkillers opened the door to the current opioid crisis. What can health care providers do to fix it?Chad Brummett, a pain management specialist from the University of Michigan, shares a new approach to combat Michigan's opioid crisis that could be a model for the rest of the nation. Brummett sat down with Mary Bassett, director of Harvard’s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights.You can subscribe to Harvard Chan: This Week in Health by visiting Apple Podcasts or Google Play and you can listen to it by following us on Soundcloud, and stream it on the Stitcher app or on Spotify.

Essential health care is a right, not a privilege ... or is it? This hour, TED speakers explore how we can give everyone access to a healthier way of life, despite who you are or where you live. Guests include physician Raj Panjabi, former NYC health commissioner Mary Bassett, researcher Michael Hendryx, and neuroscientist Rachel Wurzman.

In this week's podcast we're sharing a special conversation between Cecile Richards, former president of Planned Parenthood and one of the co-founders of Supermajority, and Mary Bassett, director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights. Richards spoke about how Supermajority is working to empower women and organize them around key issues related to gender equity, including equal pay and child care. The two also spoke about the recent spate of anti-abortion laws across the United States and the need to protect reproductive rights. Full Transcript: hsph.me/richards-pod

In this week's podcast we're sharing a special conversation between Cecile Richards, former president of Planned Parenthood and one of the co-founders of Supermajority, and Mary Bassett, director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights. Richards spoke about how Supermajority is working to empower women and organize them around key issues related to gender equity, including equal pay and child care. The two also spoke about the recent spate of anti-abortion laws across the United States and the need to protect reproductive rights. You can subscribe to Harvard Chan: This Week in Health by visiting iTunes or Google Play and you can listen to it by following us on Soundcloud, and stream it on the Stitcher app or on Spotify.

1,441 is the number of overdose fatalities in New York City in 2017. NYC Commissioner of Health Dr. Mary Bassett discusses Healing NYC, a new program designed to combat the opioid health crisis, as well as neighborhood health clinics, lead testing at NYCHA and more.

Rebecca Cooney is joined by Mary Bassett, Tené T Lewis, Nwando Olayiwola, Esther Choo, Jennifer Okwerekwu, and Barron Lerner.

The nation heard from President Donald Trump on Wednesday, who again urged Republicans to repeal the ACA. Congress continues to loudly battle over the law, and governors have spoken out too. But one voice that’s been largely ignored: Local health leaders. And on this episode of PULSE CHECK, two big city health commissioners — New York City commissioner Mary Bassett and Chicago commissioner Julie Morita — join POLITICO’s Dan Diamond to explain how Republicans’ plan would hit their cities, why they prioritize "health" over "health care" and how they're addressing persistent social inequality. They also walk through what it’s like to be a city health commissioner — a role that both describe as their dream job. We’d appreciate your help: Please share PULSE CHECK and rate us on your favorite podcast app! Have questions, suggestions or feedback? Email ddiamond@politico.com or tweet him @ddiamond. NOTE: Dan will be at Politicon.com next week for a live-taping of POLITICO’s Nerdcast podcast and to moderate a panel on health care. Stories referenced on the podcast: How the Cleveland Clinic gets healthier while its neighborhood stays sick: http://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/obamacare-cleveland-clinic-non-profit-hospital-taxes/ How hospitals got richer off Obamacare: http://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/obamacare-non-profit-hospital-taxes/

Rebecca Cooney speaks with Mary Bassett and Zinzi Bailey about health outcomes and structural racism in the USA.

Mary Bassett is commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. M.T. Bassett. #BlackLivesMatter - A Challenge to the Medical and Public Health Communities. N Engl J Med 2015;372:1085-7.

This week, New York Governor Kathy Hochul has named former New York City Health Commissioner Mary Bassett to lead the state's health department. Our political observer discusses the idea of universal healthcare in New York. Also, a COVID vaccine mandate for healthcare workers started this week in New York — and with it, a fear of staffing shortages at medical facilities. Photo courtesy of Mary Bassett's official Twitter page.